breakaway

break·a·way  (brk-w)

adj.

1. Designed to break, bend, or fall apart easily upon impact, especially to create an illusion, as with a theater prop, or for safety, as with a highway sign or barrier.

2. Severing or having severed alliance with another entity, policy, or attitude: a group of breakaway political reformers.

n.

1. One that breaks away.

2. The act of breaking away, especially:

a. An offensive play in a team sport such as ice hockey in which a player with the ball or puck advances ahead of the defenders toward the goal.

b. A burst of speed by a competitor or group of competitors in a race to break free of the pack.

3. An object designed to break away.

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breakaway

Noun

1. loss or withdrawal of a group of members from an association, club, etc.

2. Austral a stampede of cattle, esp. at the smell of water

Adjective

dissenting: a breakaway faction

Verb

break away

1. to leave hastily or escape

2. to withdraw or quit

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1. The onset of a condition in which the shock front moves away from the exterior of the expanding fireball produced by the explosion of a nuclear weapon.
2. (DOD only) After completion of attack, turn to heading as directed.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	breakaway - the act of breaking away or withdrawing from; "there was a breakaway by the discontented members"; "a breaking away from family and neighborhood" breaking away secession, withdrawal - formal separation from an alliance or federation
Adj.	1.	breakaway - having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction" separatist, fissiparous independent - free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"

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breakaway

adjective rebel, revolutionary, rebellious, dissenting, insurgent, seceding, secessionist, heretical, mutinous, insubordinate, insurrectionary, schismatic

Translations

breakaway [ˈbreɪkəweɪ] adj [group etc] → disidente

breakaway [ˈbreɪkəweɪ] adj [group etc] → dissident(e)

breakaway [ˈbreɪkəweɪ] adj (group etc) → Splitter-

breakaway [ˈbreɪkəweɪ] adj [group etc] → scissionista, dissidente